Florida beach community named happiest, healthiest place in the US

Naples, Florida, has been named the happiest and healthiest town in the US for the third year in a row.

The beach community that includes the town of Immokalee and Marco Island took the top spot in the 2017 report by the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index.

Overall there was a decrease in Americans’ well-being in 2017 with not a single state showing a significant improvement from the year before and declines in well-being across 21 states.

However, the communities highlighted in the Gallup-Sharecare report offer a silver-lining against the dismal national and statewide results and could be used as examples for how improvements could be made.

The beach community that includes Naples, Immokalee and Marco Island, Florida, scored the highest in overall well-being in 2017 according to a Gallup-Sharecare report

A map shows where the highest and lowest well-being communities are located in the US

The report by Gallup and Sharecare asks Americans across the country about their personal, financial and social situations to calculate an overall measure of well-being in 185 metropolitan areas.